Improvement in wheels for vehicles



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

SAMUEL E. EULLEE, oE EEv1Nc,MASSAcEUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEELS FOR VEHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,544, dated February 9, 1875; application led Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in the Method of Attaching Hubs to the Axles of Garriages, of which the following is a description sufrivciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in Which- Figure lis an isometrical perspective view, and Fig. 2 avertical longitudinal Section, showing my improvement.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawing.

My invention relates more especially to the lighter classes of carriages and vehicles, and consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character is produced than is noW vin common use.

In the drawing, G represents the axle; A, the hub; B, the hub-band; and D, the nut. The band is attached in the usual manner to the hub hy the screws c c, land has an oblong hole or aperture, f, near its outer edge. The nut is tapped or threaded to fit the axle-screw I in the usual manner, and is provided with the sliding bolt g. This bolt is arranged in a slot extending laterally through one side of the nut, and opening into the axle-hole near its' outer end. A button or sliding plate, E, is attached to the bolt by means of the screw December 4, 1874.

c, in such a manner as to cover the outer end of the axle-hole in the nut, being also designed for actuating the bolt g. I

From the foregoing, the nature and operation of my invention will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters.

To attach or secure the wheel upon the axle the nut is ,inserted in the band, and the bolt g slipped through the hole f by means of the slide or button E, thereby coupling the nut and band together. The hub is then placed upon the axle, the wheel being revolved until the nut is turned onto thel screw I, when the bolt g is pressed down by means of the sliding plate E until it passes Within the hubband B, and can revolve freely with the nut D.

To remove the nut it is only necessary to slip the bolt g through the aperture f, and revolve the wheel in the direction to unscrew the nut from the axle.

It will be seen that this form of construction affords a neat and economical means of attaching hubs to axles, dispensing With the use of a Wrench, and effectually excluding dust and gravel from the boxes of the Wheels.

I am aware that hubs and axles have been secured together by means of bolts, but this is not my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is The nut D, bolt g, screw e, plate E, and the band B,provided with the aperature f, constructed and combined with axle G, to operate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

SAMUEL B. FULLER. [L. s] Witnesses L. J. GUNN, D.'P. ABERCROMBIE. 

